About 20 passengers injured as automated train in Yokohama travels in wrong direction, crashes into buffer

YOKOHAMA - An automated train operated by Yokohama Seaside Line Co. on Saturday traveled in the wrong direction, causing about 20 people to be injured, a local fire department said. Some appeared to have suffered serious but non-life-threatening injuries as the train made contact with a buffer stop at Shin-Sugita Station, the department said, but other details were not immediately available. The trains are on an automated guideway transit system connecting Shin-Sugita and Kanazawa Hakkei in Yokohama.